| Summary: | This chapter analyses the French and Irish fishing settlements in Codroy, southwestern Newfoundland, from their origins, persistence during the British sovereignty of the island, and eventual successive abandonments during war between Britain and France, once in 1744, again in 1755, and a final time in 1762, this time as a British community. The chapter aims to demonstrate that national differences were relatively insignificant, as the infrastructure of Codroy was largely unchanged over time despite the shift from French to British occupation. It uses manuscript and cartographic sources from French and English archives as the basis for analysis and provides a thorough account of the history of these settlements, concluding that the only major difference between settlements was that war forced the French to abandon them, whereas wartime conditions were favourable to the English.
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